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1: The total level of health expenditures for health and medical care services in the United States for 2003 is likely to be closest to which of these figures?

A: 500 million dollars

B: 50 billion dollars

C: 1.5 trillion dollars

D: 100 trillion dollars

2: All of the following comparisons of the U.S. and Canadian health care systems are true EXCEPT

A: the percentage of the GNP devoted to health care is higher is the US

B: the percentage of people who are uninsured is higher in the U.S.

C: fees for physician services per capita is higher in the U.S.

D: The relative quantity of physician services is greater in U.S. than in Canada.

E: net incomes of physicians are higher in the U.S.

3: What major public health intervention strategy has the purpose of eliminating or reducing exposure to harmful factors by modifying human behavior?

A: heath promotion

B: disease prevention

C: health monitoring

D: environmental scanning

4: Medical services (including clinical preventive services such as immunizations and screening tests) account for what share of the 30-year increased life expectancy achieved for Americans between 1900 and 2000?

A: 1 year

B: 5 years

C: 15 years

D: 25 years

5: Which of the following was not one of the three over-arching goals of Healthy People 2000?

A: increase access to preventive services

B: reduce health disparities

C: increase the span of healthy life

D: increase immunization rates for all age groups

6: Guidelines for effective patient education and counseling include all the following EXCEPT

7: Health care expenditures in the United States have increased from $12.7 billion in 1950 to $1.5 trillion in 2003. About what proportion of the gross national product was spent on health care in 2003?

A: 2 percent

B: 6 percent

C: 10 percent

D: 14 percent

E: 20 percent

8: The world population is currently estimated to be growing at a rate such that the time required for the population to double is about:

A: 15 years

B: 35 years

C: 70 years

D: 105 years

E: 140 years

9: Appropriate considerations for implementation of a screening test include all the following EXCEPT:

A: cost of screening test

B: burden of suffering

C: the physician's familiarity with the disease

D: potential adverse effects of screening test

E: efficacy of treatment

10: Early detection of disease and interventions to reverse, halt, or at least slow the progression of a condition, often performed when disease is not yet symptomatic, is a description of:

A: primary prevention

B: secondary prevention

C: tertiary prevention

D: none of the above

11: Factors shaping health policy in the United States include all of the following EXCEPT:

A: federalism

B: pluralism

C: socialism

D: incrementalism

12: Immunizations fall into what category of disease prevention?

A: primary prevention

B: secondary prevention

C: tertiary prevention

D: none of the above

13: The major strategy used by the federal government in the U.S. after about 1935 to influence the health policies and services of states and local governments was:

A: appointment of state and local health commissioners

B: development of unified national policy through federal legislation

C: establishment of direct federal health service systems

D: grants-in-aid

14: The approximate percentage of all health and medical care expenditures in the United States spent on clinical preventive and public health services is:

A: 25-30 percent

B: 15-20 percent

C: 5-10 percent

D: less than 5 percent

15: Principal findings of the United States Preventive Services (USPS) Task Force include all the following EXCEPT: